As Europe Burns, a Climate Cover-Up Continues

The U.K.’s Labour government seems afraid to talk about the climate emergency.

“To cover up 1 high level report … looks odd,” remarked Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party. “To cover up 2 looks like a pattern.” Lucas was commenting on reporting in The Guardian revealing that the Labour government was again burying an explosive report by U.K. military and intelligence leaders warning that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the U.K.’s security and food supply within as little as five years.

The U.K. “has no future” if it cannot “restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air,” said Chris Hinchliff, who is among the members of Parliament pressing the government to release the full report, rather than a shorter, redacted version. Even that version, which was obtained by The Guardian’s Fiona Harvey, “paints a devastating picture of severe food shortages, price rises, migration, political destabilisation, and possible war, resulting from the collapse of ecosystems, fuelled by the human-induced climate........

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